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PART FOR PART metonymy in medical research articles in English and Croatian

Two general types of metonymy are distinguished in the conceptual configuration of metonymic relations, i.e. WHOLE - PART and PART -PART. Relations between a whole and one of its parts are further divided into metonymies PART FOR WHOLE and WHOLE FOR PART, while relations between different parts of the whole are classified as PART FOR PART metonymies. This work analyzes instances of PART FOR PART metonymies from medical research articles in Croatian and English. The metonymies are grouped into several domains. For example, in the domain of [institutional organizations], the metonymic relations refer to STATE FOR INSTITUTION, STATE FOR INHABITANTS AND INSTITUTION FOR PEOPLE WORKING THERE. In the [research] domain, the authors' names are mainly not mentioned. The research itself with its participants and results play a salient role. They are metonymically highlighted as a conceptual relation RESEARCH FOR AUTOR. The comparison of PART FOR PART metonymies in English and Croatian showed that the English language uses metonymy more commonly and in more conceptual relations than Croatian.

metonymy; cognitive linguistics; medical discourse

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